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"As long as I'm not on a public school campus, as in high school or middle school, where there's adolescents around, I feel like if I want to walk outside, in an enclosed area, and smoke a cigarette, I feel like I have the right to do that," Nicholas Ratliff says.

He is a student at Middle Georgia State College's Macon campus and thinks banning tobacco from college campuses infringes on his rights.

The Georgia Board of Regents has voted to implement a system-wide ban on the use of all forms of tobacco products on all 31 campuses in Georgia.

Ratliff thinks students shouldn't be banned from smoking in public, and he's not the only one.

"I'm not saying it's a very positive habit to do, but if it's something you're already doing, it's you're personal choice you can't really just stop people from doing something like that," said Katelyn Reeves.